Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies

A reading with Fariha Róisín. Fariha Róisín is an Australian-Canadian writer, editor and podcaster based in Brooklyn. With an interest in her Muslim identity, race, pop culture and film (as well as queerness and how that intersects with being a femme of color navigating a white world) she has written for Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Vice, Fusion, Village Voice, and others. From 2012 onwards she co-hosted Two Brown Girls, a podcast that centered brown and black voices in film and... TV, emphasizing the importance of representation. She is currently the writer-at-large/culture editor for the new media company, The Juggernaut. Fariha's debut poetry collection How To Cure A Ghost was published by Abrams Books in the Fall of 2019 along with a journal on femme/non-binary body empowerment, entitled Being in Your Body. Her first novel, Like A Bird, was released this fall.

Join us in welcoming ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, Jorge Sánchez Cruz, as he presents his work: "Debility, Negative Affect, Mobility: Undocu-Queer Aesthetics, and the Right to Thrive."

Tonight! Live from Philadelphia, where bad things happen: Election Reflections with Anthea Butler & Dawn Teele at 6pm. Watch live here on our facebook page or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch Don't miss this conversation with two exceptional interpreters of our current political landscape! You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/election-reflections-with-anth

Wednesday September 30th at 6pm: Election Reflections with Anthea Butler & Dawn Teele! Watch live and sign up at gsws.sas.upenn.edu/events.

Cultural Center open houses continue this week! More information below & here: https://gicatpenn.weebly.com/gic-blog/crc-open-houses

Day Two of #ScholarStrike. Be sure to check out the teach in on the Scholar Strike YouTube channel. APC/GSWS will also be continuing to profile members of our community on our Twitter and Instagram accounts. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu76Immw5Fuj2bajTDCXwKQ

On September 8th and 9th, APC/GSWS is supporting #ScholarStrike, an action inspired by the NBA, WNBA, Colin Kapernick and other athletes, to underscore the urgent importance of addressing racism and injustice in the United States. Conceived via a tweet by GSWS Affiliated Faculty member Anthea Butler, Scholar Strike is designed to call awareness to the racial climate in America, and the rash of police shootings and racialized violence. Scholar Strike is open to everyone to pa...rticipate in on college and university campuses - faculty, staff, grad students, and administrators who are committed to anti-racism, and advocating for racial justice for BIPOC in all areas of society. Over the next two days, we invite you to visit the Scholar Strike YouTube channel to participate in the Scholar Strike Teach In, and to join us on our social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) as we highlight the work of Black scholars, activists, and artists in the APC/GSWS community.

This roundtable launches the Alice Paul Center's year dedicated to Environmental Feminisms, with programming that concerns the overlapping projects of environmental justice, transnational feminist activism, indigenous epistemologies, and artistic performance as feminist method.

Join us on Thursday, September 10th, as we kick off this year’s programming theme, Environmental Feminisms!

GSWS faculty & staff weigh in on the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment: